{"id":35301,"date":"2026-04-13T20:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35301"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:29:43","slug":"for-sale-sign-on-solicitors-on-ock-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35301","title":{"rendered":"\u2018For Sale\u2019 Sign on Solicitors on Ock Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026041301.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere is a &#8216;For Sale&#8217; sign outside Walton House on Ock Street &#8211; the former home of Franklins Solicitors, a familiar name in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>The sign follows events in March, when a notice appeared on the door saying that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) had closed the practice of Hunters Solicitors LLP. The closure of the firm and all its associated offices included the Abingdon solicitors.<\/p>\n<p>Franklins\u2019 story in the town goes back much further . The practice started as A.H. Franklin &amp; Son and became Franklins. Between 2022 and 2023 it became part of Hunters.<\/p>\n<p>The March notice with information to help clients and employees is on the Franklins website <a href=\"https:\/\/franklins-solicitors.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/franklins-solicitors.co.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a &#8216;For Sale&#8217; sign outside Walton House on Ock Street &#8211; the former home of Franklins Solicitors, a familiar name in Abingdon. The sign follows events in March, when a notice appeared on the door saying that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) had closed the practice of Hunters Solicitors LLP. The closure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}